Reports inspections of national, state, and local quarantine stations : From Annual report Marine Hospital Service, 1896.
- United States Department of the Treasury
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Reports inspections of national, state, and local quarantine stations : From Annual report Marine Hospital Service, 1896. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![WHATCOM. I called upon the health officer and inquired into his methods of inspection, etc. There have not been any foreign ships entered at this port for several months There are no means at this port for disinfection, and vessels would be ordered to Port Townsend. June 28, 1894. There have been no foreign ships entered direct at Whatcom since last report. The health of Whatcom is good. March 10, 1895. SOUTH BEND. All vessels have been allowed to enter South Bend without inspection. Under the present conditions I deem it advisable that the few foreign ships enter- ing here be inspected by a United States quarantine inspector, and for this duty I have the honor to recommend (as reported by wire the loth instant) the appoint- ment of Dr. Wilson Gruwell, with compensation of §5 for each inspection, his duties dating from September 13, 1895. As explained by map inclosed, the most convenient and efficient point is South Bend for such inspection. The larger number of vessels clearing from South Bend are bound for Honolulu, but return to San Francisco with fruit, rice, etc., and thence here for lumber. Only two foreign ships entered last year. The lumber trade is improving, and it is expected that all these small lumber stations will have many foreign entries this year. September 11, 1895. [Note. A sanitary inspector of the Marine-Hospital Service has been appointed at South Bend at a compensation for each vessel inspected.] GENERAL REPORT UPON QUARANTINE AND SHIPPING INTERESTS IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. By P. A. Surg. J. O. Cobb, M. H. S. This part of the country has settled up so rapidly, with its railroads and steam- boat routes established, that it may be hard for one to exactly comprehend the relative positions and the many means of communication between the towns in the northwestern part of the State and the adjoining towns in British Columbia. It is because of the vagueness of information in regard to this section that this report, with sectional and railroad maps, is submitted for your assistance in direct- ing a quarantine against British Columbia in case it should ever become again necessary. To make myself perfectly familiar with all the details, important and minor routes connecting the towns of British Columbia with towns on the borders of this State, I made it a point to travel over most of these routes by boat or rail. I found many ways that one could, if well informed, enter the State from British Columbia and evade the quarantine inspectors on this side. In this connection I would respectfully invite yo„ur attention to the map of the State and the waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington Sound, and Puget Sound. One must not confuse the names and positions of these waters, as Puget Sound is a very small part, being a narrow body of water commencing at Port Townsend and ending at Olympia, and ships bound into the sound from for- eign ports, as most of them are, must pass Port Townsend. It will readily be seen that in so far as the quarantine at Port Townsend is concerned, no great fear need be entertained that epidemic diseases will be introduced into the State by this point. An infected ship can be easily treated, but with an epidemic in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28716103_0390.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
